West Bengal Sales Tax Act , 1994 -Service tax – Finance Act 1994 .
S.2(30): Club-Mutuality -A club registered as a ‘company’ u/s 25 of Companies Act is not like other companies as it has no shareholders, no dividends declared, and no distribution of profits takes place-.Such clubs cannot be treated as separate in law from their members- when a club supplies goods to its members, there is no “sale” and sales-tax cannot be levied- From 2005 onwards, the Finance Act of 1994 does not purport to levy service tax on members’ clubs in the incorporated form. [S. 2(5), 2(10) 2(30), Constitution of India , Art . 366 (29-A), 367 , , Contract Act , 1872, S. 2(d) , Companies Act ,1956 , S. 25(1)(b) , Income -tax , 1961 ,S. 2(24)(vii) , 2(31),44, 45 , Indian Contract Act 1872 , S .2(d) , General Clauses Act , 3 (42) , Finance Act , 1994 , S. 65 (105) (zze ), 65B (37), 66B ,66D 68 ]